Stormy st. 401 [Emi's house][P|T|C]

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

0/10, 54th


So after reading for a few minutes about the wood, he highlighted the important parts and made a few notes himself. Then he thought that he just as well could start working, so he fetched some paper and began to make a couple of different sketches of good ideas for shields. Most of them were common applying versions like bucklers and tower shields, but some were a little more exciting like a new version of the umbrella. Even though his umbrella sketch intrigued him and made him want to make one of those, he decided that it'd be a lot better to start with a simple version. The most common and therefor a good practice was the medium sized rounded shield that was most used by knights and vikings. There were not anything really advanced about it, so he just measured the length he would need to have it in to cover a proper area and then began.

At first he painted on the diameter of the shield upon the wood with a normal pencil and made sure to press extra hard so it would be easy to see. Emi then used one of his circular saws with a thicker blade to cut out the shape from the wood, which resisted quite surprisingly well. The floor was quickly covered in a thick pile of dust from the wood as he got all the closer to the end of the circle with the saw. When he was almost done the wood began to flicker from the force of the saw, which forced him to attach the wood to the table using a bench clamp and hold the shield with his own hand. That made it a lot easier for him to finish off the sawing, but as he made the final push, the sudden weight made him almost drop the shield. Emi was quite surprised by the sheer weight of the disc, even when cut out it was heavier than most shields.

The book had stated that the material was one the heavy side, but at that point he imagined that he could compare it to iron. But then Emi raised it up and imagined it sitting on his hand, which allowed him to accept it as plausible tool of defense. But before he could know for sure, he had to add on some grips, which was two, one surrounding the lower part of his arm and one that he could hold on to. Emi figured that the one surrounding his forearm just well could be a strip of leather or rope, but later decided to just use leather. That was a material that he rarely had used before, but at that point he had found it all the more versatile. So he cut up a nice black piece from a large sheet and removed all of the hair from it using a really sharp knife.

[Skulking Shinzu]

+10 TP. Learned.

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

0/10, 55th


He used the same mixture of oils as previous fixes on his stripe of leather to make it softer, more durable and shine a little more. The attachments to the shield became four smaller screws in both of the ends of the stripe, to make sure that neither part would receive too much tension and snap. Thanks to the fact that the stripe was so broad, the screws didn't land close enough to affect each other, but Emi still wondered if there would be any better way to make it. At first he thought that he could make it go through the shield to make a full lap, making sure that it wouldn't need to have weak spots. But then he just slapped his forehead as he realized that it made just a massive weak spot in the front of the shield instead. And he wouldn't be able to secure it enough by just covering it with a plate of steel, so he ignored the idea.

But he instead went on to a similar yet more effective version, to have it go through just some of the shield. That would allow a lot more protection and possibly less damage if it actually got hit by anything. Since he didn't want to test it on his strong wood first, he went over and got himself some scrap wood. Which he swiftly turned into a similarly sized shield, but was immediately divided into two. Emi then took the inner part of the shield and drilled two long holes about 20 centimeters away from each other. He then dragged the leather through both of them and then connected it on the back side by sewing them together.

As he wanted the merge to be as strong as possible, he allowed the parts to cross each other for quite long distance while he sewed them up, making the sewing massive. When he had confirmed that the handle was properly placed, Emi stretched it out and then applied a lot of glue to the front side of the shield before pushing the top wood upon the bottom one. Since he had used so much glue in between them, white sap ran down the sides of the wood and slowly began to dry. When he noticed that the sides weren't aligned properly, he was about to push them into the correct position. But then he realized that it would make the leather to get tangled up and air would be released into the merge. So he then decided that he instead would just wait until it had dried until he would do any changes to it.

[Skulking Shinzu]

+10 TP. Learned.

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

0/10, 56th


It was hard for him to be able to tell when the glue had dried in the middle of the shield, so he had to assume it was when all of it had dried surrounding the shield and in the holes. So he tried it out a little by trying to gently push it to the side before he did it once more a little harder. He could tell that it wasn't completely solid throughout, but instead of waiting further he instead drilled a total of six holes in the hull. He figured that it needed some additional ways to attach to avoid just falling off the back part. So he inserted small poles of wood into the freshly drilled holes by smashing them with a rubber hammer and then when it was almost completely through with a normal hammer to completely get it to the other side. Emi then sawed off the lumps on both sides of the wood to even them out, but as there were still some wood pushing out from the shield he made sure to sand them down.

It took him a fairly long time to remove all of the last pieces of the poles as he just couldn't decide when they were completely gone. The lumps constantly got wooden dust surrounding them, making them appear to be gone until Emi brushed it off and realized there were some length left to remove. To make everything stick together a little better Emi was about to spread some glue all of the shield, but then figured that it probably would be better with some thick color instead. The color of choice became a normal white color that he thought would make a good base for possible different coloring later. To make sure that it was even thicker than normal the boy kept it next to the fireplace for a couple of minutes. Not close enough for it to catch on fire, but close enough for some of the water in the liquid to vaporize and thicken it.

The color got a small hint of brown in it as time went by, which made the boy worry a little of what was happening as he really didn't have that much experience making colors. So he immediately removed it from the fireplace and began to stir the liquid around in the barrel until almost all of the brown had vanished. As he didn't really care about any possible hints of a different color in his base, Emi took a large brush and pushed it into the barrel. He received a generous amount of color on the brush and then smeared it all across the wooden shield, covering the whole thing in a veil of white. Emi made sure to cover the entire thing in a really thick layer and when the color had dried, the boy added on another layer, and then another one. After the third layer he assumed that the shield would stick together, so he turned it around and did the same thing there.

[Spectre of the Falls(Kuroki)]

+10 TP Learned (I think Emi is now better than Loki at this)

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

0/10, 57th (OOC: well, I've trained all of my weaponsmithing while she revamped most of it I believe)


He had to be careful to not touch the leather with the color as it left permanent stains on the materials, and since he didn't feel confident enough with the brush, he left almost an inch of uncolored area surrounding the leather. It looked a little weird to him, so he tried to cover up the leather using some normal paper tejp before painting on the color. Since he already had done so many layers, it was difficult for the boy to get a even surface in there, and when he tried to just let some of it rush down he got a few small drops on the leather. A few curses echoed throughout the room as he tried to rub the color off from it, but in vain, they were there for the long run. But after applying some water to the leather, he was able to get rid of some of it at least. Since he didn't intend to use it as his serious project, he allowed himself to give up on fixing it despite that he felt the nagging feeling in the back of his mind.

Emi then trimmed the edges of the shield and added on a nice edge to them, to make sure that he would be able to use the shield as weapon just in case something happened. To make it extra effective, Emi added on a metal coating on the edge which he attached with nails. It wasn't essential that it remained as the offensive capabilities were just a bonus to the shield. But to make it stick a little better, Emi heated one of his completely metal clamps and pressed the metal into the wood at some places. He figured that it mostly went into the color, but he didn't care that much as it still was an improvement. The annoying part was however that he found it almost impossible to get them to align properly as the dried color beneath kept on pushing the clamps to the side.

But after a few minutes, he had a symmetrical looking pattern on the shield, which made him think of other different things he could add on to it. As that however was the last step, Emi instead moved on with the other handle that was supposed to be on the backside. That one was supposed to be made in wood as he needed to be able to have a completely firm grip of the shield. So Emi cut out a cube out of the same type of material as he had used for the base structure of the shield. Then he painted on the overall appearance he wanted the handle to have, before he cut it out using his machine saw. After trying it out and modifying it a few times, Emi had found a proper size for the handle which he then made more comfortable by sanding it.

[Spectre of the Falls(Kuroki)]

+10 TP Learned

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

0/10, 58th


Emi then drilled one hole at each end and made sure that they were clean from scraps before he oiled the entire handle. As there were a separate thing from the shield, he thought a few seconds if he wanted it to be in the same color or if it was better to allow it to just be oiled. The latter was the choice he picked as he enjoyed the appearance of the wood against the white surface. So he put it in place and made sure that it was in line with the leather and a good distance from the sides of the shield. At first he was going with it completely straight in comparison to the leather. But then as he thought about it and tried the proper hold out, he realized that the best way to hold it was actually a little angled.

So the question then became "how much did he want to angle it"? Too little of an angle and the shield would be clumsier to use, but too much and it would strain his wrist and be even worse to use. As he however didn't have any proper shield that he could practice it with, Emi attached the handle to shield with some temporary screws that didn't go deep. Then he swung it around a little and went into the different poses that he knew he would need to be in while in a combat. As he found out the small modifications needed, he moved the screws slightly until he finally thought he had the optimal angle to it. Then when he had confirmed that it was indeed what he wanted, Emi screwed the screws in tightly.

Emi then tried the shield out properly, the weight was a little low, but since he was going to have a heavier wood on the real shield it didn't matter for him. But what else did he need? he wondered. There weren't that much on it just yet, so he thought that he wanted to have some more details on it, but that wasn't the most crucial part as he still needed to make it able to take more beating. There were many things he knew he could add to the thing, but few that would be practical. Emi were for example thinking of adding on spikes on the shield to repel attacks and catch some of them before even impacting on the wood. It did however give him the idea to instead of having the spikes shooting outwards, he could have them surround the shield.

[Spectre of the Falls(Kuroki)]

+10 TP learned

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

0/10, 59th


Then they didn't need to be as long, which allowed it to remain fairly light weight and the spikes a little less in the way for his general movements. But how long did he want them to be? Emi held the shield in front of himself and tried to imagine the spikes shooting out at the edge. To him it made sense that they only needed to be an inch each to be able to afflict damage to anyone touching them and catch edge weapons without being in the way for his vision. As he wanted them to catch swords and the like, he needed them to be fairly close to each other and have a triangular shape. To have himself a possible scenario, Emi went into his bedroom and fetched frostbite and tried to measure the swords width and angle, as a way to make out a proper size of the thorns. Emi did however know that he had to remember that frostbite was really thin in comparison to most swords.

So when he had a approximate size for them, he added in an extra 15% space in between to make it possible for larger swords to fit in there. Emi didn't mind that the spikes would have to be fairly fragile as that would just make him use another part of the shield or leave the spikes stay in the wounds of the enemy. He did however need to look around on the shield to see where it would be optimal to put them. To have them in the front would just make their roots take unnecessary damage, but if he kept them in the back it could hinder his movements. The solution had to be to just to have them come from within the divide between the two pieces of wood. It worried him however a little as he didn't know how that would be if one of the spikes would be hit, would it risk to bend open the shield?

What he also didn't want was a hollow space in between the plates of wood, which he would get from just having small areas covered by the attachments. The immediate fix he came up with would be to just make the surrounding plates thinner and add in some extra wood in the open space. But as he didn't enjoy that idea the boy sat down and began to sketch on other possible ideas. After a while, he had come with one that satisfied him a lot more, he would use the bodies of the spikes to make a fairly complex pattern which would allow the shield to be able to absorb at least the normal amount of damage. As there would still be space in between, he considered to just put in some isolation material in there to make it dampen vibrations as it no longer was needed to keep up the structure. Before he applied the test to yet another shield as he didn't want to open up his current, he worked a little more on the pattern.

[Spectre of the Falls(Kuroki)]

+10 TP Learned

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

0/10, 60th


It didn't change that much as he worked on it and he wasn't sure that it actually had been improved at the end of it. Regardless the boy was satisfied with how it looked and decided that he wanted to try it out for reals. So he swiftly made two plates from the wood and placed them next to each other with a large amount of glue on both sides. Emi then carefully cut out a bunch of longer sticks that he then placed in his pattern on the bottom plate of wood. he had to be careful not to move them to far and as the glue was drying, he also had to hurry up to end it before smashing both the plates together. But when he did, he remembered that he wanted to put in some isolation to fill up the empty void in between the planks.

So he forced them apart again and the thing he had dreaded met him, the planks had separated when he pulled them from each other. The boy groaned and tried to swiftly put them back in the proper pattern, but it was too late as the glue had already set too much to be used. So he began to spray on a liquid on the glue to have it solve a little before he started to sand down the remaining glue that wouldn't remove. When it was all gone, Emi applied the new layer of glue and then immediately filled the void with some thick fabrics. He had to make sure that none of the fabric reached over the planks and would get stuck in between the plates as that would make the entire merge a lot weaker. So all of the fabrics were folded as much as possible and all the edges were pushed in under the rest.

When he was certain that nothing would get in between the two sides, Emi put the top half upon the other one and pushed them hard against each other. To make sure that there was an even pressure while it hardened, Emi put on a total of four bench clamps around the shield. Some of the white glue ran down on the sides, which made him wonder if it also ran down on the fabrics on the inside. As the glue was made for wood, he hoped that it wouldn't remove too much of the fabrics ability to soak damage from the wood. So Emi then started to doubt that he actually had come up with the optimal version just yet, maybe he should just remove all the space in between by having the planks go into both the plates? that would make it less capable of soaking the damage, but it would make it a perfectly merged piece.

[Spectre of the Falls(Kuroki)]

+10 TP Learned (You should go for GM or staff with as creative and extensive you got with this)

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

0/10, 61st (OOC: I've considered staff for long time, but constantly fear I'd just have to step down again from the same reason)


The complexity of the pieces would increase fairly much as he would need to make an exact cut out for it not to push the plates of wood away from each other creating a space of air in between. So he measured it very careful several times to make sure, and when he had gotten all of the measurements, he made exactly the same thing on the plates. The hard part for him was to carve out all of the patterns in the wood without breaking any of the lines or go too deep. As he had to get the exact same depth in both of the plates, he had to create a small device that he would hang over the hole and then sink down a measuringtejp. It was effective but didn't quite make the carving as perfect as he had intended, so he had to use a spirit to get an even layer. When he had confirmed that he had an even layer and almost all of the sides were perfected enough, he sighed and moved on to the other plate and did the same there.

As both of the plates got finished, Emi began to compare them to see if they were compatible with each other. But that is when he noticed a major flaw in the design, he hadn't made the second one the opposite. That made all of the small angels he had made to make sure that the planks would stick to the upper layer fit, or even allowed them to enter. So he had to sand down the existing angles and then replace them on the other side of the plank. That cost him some valuable wood that he would need to have in place, which forced him to replace them by gluing on new parts. Emi then quickly made sure that they would actually fit that time, which they to his great relief actually appeared to do.

So Emi added on the spikes in between the shields and attached the two sides together without fear of having to remove them from each other again. When he had allowed the glue to harden and he had tried the shield out a few times, he tried to compare it to the first version of the same kind of wood. By using a clone Emi was able to try the striking effect and how it was affected by hits from both swords and hammers. The latest shield proved to be both a little more functional, but a lot stronger to withstand the attacks from the blunt weapons. But Emi wanted to be able to direct more of the attacks away from a direct impact on the shield. So he made a normal disc of metal and placed it in the middle of the shield and then began to shape it into a half orb.

[Spectre of the Falls(Kuroki)]

+10 TP Learned. (If you have to step down then you have to. As long as you dont just disappear in silence it is no big. And even short term help is help.)

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

0/10, 62nd

The metal would however prove to be a little too much pointing out from the shield, so Emi flattened it a little more, making it cover a larger area instead. That did look a little weird to him as the metal covered most of the wooden area, making it look like that was the actual shield. So he removed it and cut off a large chunk of the metal before putting it back and reshaped it into the same curve as before. That made it look a lot more acceptable as he had done so it only covered the inner part of the shield. As it was it couldn't take any incredible amount of force as he hadn't filled the metal with anything but air. By slamming it a couple of times into the wall, he noticed that it quickly got some major dents in the surface, but nothing that broke.

So he pulled out the dents by making a vacuum against the surface before dragging it back away from the wood. As that had felt quite good for his arm in comparison to a normal hit with the shield, Emi decided that he wanted a few more of the domes around on the shield. But how did he want to place them, and how big? He wondered. The aesthetic part of the shield was something he always had to have in mind, but it was more crucial to keep it useful. So he planned out the surface of the shield on his sketch, to see how many he could have before the weight made it too hard to wield. So the final size became the same size as a fist, while he wanted to place them 7 inches away from the main dome. That would make it likely that any attacker would hit one of the those instead of the clean wood.

Since he needed to have a bunch of similar looking plates, he just took a few of them on top of each other before he cut them into shape. Emi then used his hammer machine to force all of the pieces at the same time into the proper appearance. As the plates had different place in the stacking order, their shape were slightly different as the top one had its shape also affected by the width of all the plates underneath it. So Emi had to remove one plate after another as the top-most one became finished and when he only had one left he was able to fix the remaining change using his normal hammer. Then before Emi forcibly would attach the plates upon the shield, he figured that he better find a nicer solution. The first one had been screwed on violently and most likely had damaged the wood surrounding it.

[Spectre of the Falls(Kuroki)]

+10 TP Learned

[~Emi~]

Fast Item Creation - Artisan Weaponsmithing
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has optimized their crafting techniques to save time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User increases the rate of Crafting with an Artisan Skill by +10. This technique can be taken multiple times and stacks with itself. Each time it is learned, the user adds +10 to the Artisan Skill.
Limit: Must be an Artisan. Must know an Artisan Crafting Skill (45 Points). Must know Craftsman.

0/10, 63rd


As he hadn't really thought about how he attached the big one, Emi carefully removed it and immediately regretted it. The wood didn't look very good beneath it, so he had to make a quick fix by using some glue to fill it out before sanding the excess away. Emi then had to figure out a way to get the domes attached to the wood without hurting it in any way. At first he wondered if he wanted to at a rail going into the wood or even outwards to make it attach just like a screw would. But then he realized that even though it would do the trick in the long run, constant movements could make it loosen up and need to be tightened again. So he knew that he needed to get something that he could hook it up to or just nail it in with normal screws.

Since he had so many domes, he figured that he better just add on a network of metal that he could attach them to. The metal would be a lot easier to merge with the shield as it could go around the corner and really wrap itself with it. What really made him think was however if he wanted to attach it to the metal stripes by welding them together, placing them underneath or just screw them in place. As he came up with both pros and cons for the subject, he thought that he could just as well try them all out before deciding. So he made a large amount of metal stripes which he put on the shield by screwing them on the backside. Then he covered the ends of them with another one that went around the entire shield.

Emi had managed to make the metal appear good-looking, so he then just needed to attach the domes in a good way. Since the only alternative that didn't damage the stripes were the one that just required him to put the domes underneath the metal, he tried that one first. At a first glance it looked like it would actually work as all of them were steadily in place and had metal stripes going around their entire body. But when he tried to make some drastic maneuvers with it, the small domes moved around. It wasn't any big movements and Emi suspected that they were incapable of actually falling out, but as them just moving was distracting, he couldn't allow it. So he then tried out to screw them unto the stripes, which required for him to drill a hole in the stripes for each screw he intended to put in.

[Spectre of the Falls(Kuroki)]

+10 TP Learned